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estebanana -> RE: A guitar for moi (Aug. 2 2025 9:09:29)
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It’s for me to play. What’s unusual is the top. It’s Yakusugi, cedar from Yakushima an island four hours by boat south of Kagoshima city. So that’s like the latitude of Datona Beach Florida ( mas o menos) it’s not a tree from high altitude, maybe 1600 feet, but it’s a true cypress ( remember last weeks talk about tops made of ‘cedar’ are really cypress.) Some trees we call cedar are cypress botanically speaking. I’m trying out in my own guitar, to my best knowledge no one has made classical guitars with this wood. It’s kind of like a cross between redwood and western red ‘cedar’.
I acquired several sets on seeing two giant slabs of it at a lumber yard near me. I had the slab ripped into 4mm thick tops.
The ribs are macassar ebony, quite mis matched, maybe from opposite sides of a small flitch, just leftovers after culling out the prime ribs ( *rimshot cha cha*) and the back is figured Sakura a bought locally five years ago.
It’s a mis matched set that I’m going to make into a sorta negra-
We’ll see how this goes. Otherwise I’m making conventional blancas and classicals.
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